Professor Jenny Graves FAA

Leader: Comparative Genomics Research group

Research School of Biological Sciences, ANU

Professor Jennifer Marshall Graves was born and educated in Adelaide. She received a BSc (Hons) and MSc from Adelaide University, then a PhD in Molecular Biology at the University of California at Berkeley in 1971. She lectured at La Trobe University for nearly thirty years then moved to ANU in 2001.

Jenny now heads the Comparative Genomics Research group in the Research School of Biological Sciences at ANU, and directs the ARC Centre of Excellence for Kangaroo Genomics. She has produced three books and 350 research articles. She is a Fellow (and Foreign Secretary) of the Australian Academy of Science and 2006 L'Oreal-UNESCO L au reate. She has received a number of honours and awards, including the Macfarlane Burnet medal in 2006.

Jenny works on animal genetics and genomics. Her group uses the distant relationship of Australian mammals and other vertebrates from humans to understand how genes and chromosomes evolved and how they work in all animals including humans. Her laboratory uses this unique perspective to explore the origin, function and (dismal) fate of human sex chromosomes.

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